WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference on the status of the Kepler space telescope today, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. EDT.

The participants are:

• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Charlie Sobeck, project system engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley
• William Borucki, retired Kepler principal investigator
• Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at Ames
• Padi Boyd, project scientist for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

Media who would like to participate in the teleconference should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at [email protected] no later than 2 p.m. EDT.

Questions can be submitted via Twitter during and after the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.

The teleconference audio will also be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/live

View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasa-to-hold-media-call-on-status-of-kepler-space-telescope-today-300740435.html

SOURCE NASA